• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    “I find it annoying and hard to read”.

    Valid opinion!

    I personally disagree, I don’t find it annoying or hard to read.

    I think its stylistically interesting, based in the actual history of English, and may encourage people to try to look up those weird characters, learn what they mean, how they were used.

    M4yB3 1 ju5t 4ppr3c1At3 th1s s4m3 w4y 1 appr3c147e c10wn1n6 0n n00bz w/ 1337 h4x0r sp33k.

    Just another weird, fun dialect.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t think using one single antiquated character (just the one, because that makes sense) makes for a dialect.

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        4 months ago

        We’ve got a lot of people saying that swapping in either one or two antiquated characters makes it significantly difficult to read, if they don’t know how to interpret the characters.

        Maybe dialect is the wrong term, what would you call l33t sp34k?

        Thats a fairly close equivalent, though it swaps out more characters and also has its own vernacular, vocabulary.